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FOSEP, the Young Naturalist’s Society, and the Burke Museum presented the 1000 word event on April 9th. Brandon Peecock (pictured above) from the Young Naturalists did a great job of hosting. Photograph copyright Sean Gilliland.

(I definitely need to get better at getting blog posts up more in a more timely fashion! I apologize to those who participated on the amount of time this took). That said, the event was a great success!

The winners of the competition were: Dave Slager (Biology) in first place, Jennifer Day (Biology) in second place, and Jen Whiting (Pharmacology) in third place. Thanks to all who chose to compete. We look forward to seeing you next year.

We hosted the 2nd annual 1000 Word Event with the Burke Museum last month March 21st, and have finally been able to get up a blog post about it. Apologies to everyone who entered and how late this reporting is (and apologies if your photos don’t match entries).

We had just over 60 people in attendance at the event. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Happy Hour, and then were a great audience for the event itself. I was impressed with my colleagues and their creativity, as well as the broad showing of departments we had from all around the University.

The judges and audience at the 1000 Word Presentations

One of the things FOSEP members wanted to focus on this year was communication, and we wanted to give everyone an opportunity to try in a friendly environment. When I was writing my entry, I was surprised at how hard it was to convey my research using the 1000 most common words, but found that it really challenged me to think about what my research means. I was trying to use both fast and slow thinking and understand where my audience was coming from, as we had talked about earlier in the year in our book club, but I found it was hard when limited to these words. (How do you talk about hypertension if you can’t even use the word blood pressure – blood pushing on the inside of course).